An average movie

Honestly, when I was a child, I never read a book written by Dr. Seuss. I know they are pretty popular and for many years, they have been trying to adapt them to the silver screen, usually with some rather mixed results. I will warn you, this movie is not an exception, even though, I have to admit it, it wasn't that bad at all. Indeed, the animation looked pretty gorgeous but, unfortunately, I thought that the story was terribly childish. Of course, since it has been adapted from a children book, it is hardly surprising, but, still, I thought there was a really limited target audience for this flick and I definitely didn't belong to this group. Right from the start, you had this terribly annoying music scene, and they kept throwing those from time to time which just aggravated me. Even as a child, I always dreaded those songs in any animated features and, in my opinion, there are only a few animated movies with some really nice musical sequence. Also, I thought the whole thing was actually poorly structured. Indeed, you start with Ted’s story but, at some point, you switched to the Once-ler’s story which was much more interesting in my opinion so, as a result, I had a hard time to care about Ted and his quest to win the girl of his dreams. To conclude, in spite of its flaws, it remains a visually really appealing animated feature and it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre or if you have some young children to entertain.

6/10